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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1916
Page
3
In Leavenworth R C Nance reports the sale of a business building in the heart of the city for taxes. Miss Gladys Henry visits Lecompton for a short trip while Roscoe Stubbs travels to Topeka. Local drug store offers Westom Talcum Powder at a special price while it lasts.
Lawrence society notes recount a Picnic on Golf Links honoring Miss Anna Savage with friends including Dorothy Keeler Ethel Keeler Ellie Petty Nan Armstrong Cecil Grimes Glade Saunders Christine Wenrich Hazel Ray Edith Pearson chaperoned by Prof and Mrs H W Josselyn. Other items: visits by Mr Walter Martin of Peoria and Mr Earl Sanders of Warren Ohio. Sigma Kappa house parties. a wedding of Ross Beamer and Frances Funkhouser. Mary Kruse and James Dwyer wed in Leavenworth. Woman's Mission Society meet. W M Y club elections. various club and church social events. Potter Lake swimming and a postponed Eastern Star meeting.
Lawrence residents welcome visitors and note multiple arrivals and departures. Fred McFwen will arrive from Jola to work with Johnson and Carl. Janet Simons returns from a Kansas City visit. Misses Minnie and Alice Mathews host guests in Lawrence. Marjorie Sullivan returns to Wakefield after time with grandparents. The piece also lists gatherings, militia recruitment trips, and local theatre events including a matinee and Chaplin feature.
Seven Lawrence Business college students join Company H for Port Riley mobilization amid a crowd at the station. Two veterans already enlisted are Ray Cayton and Earl Remy. A community reception plans to honor the departing soldiers as trains depart under the National Guard mobilization.
A University Company member reports 75 Mexicans boarded a train at Wa Keeney en route to El Paso, while at Russell twelve Mexicans also boarded. The speaker could not confirm if they were bound for home to fight, as another section continues on page 4.
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